Memorandum Monday - the edition with a coffee cake, crop and new snuggly dressing gown

Well I have just realised that I haven't blogged my Memorandum Monday yet and as I am still up as I can't sleep because I am full of a stinky cold, I will get on and blog now rather than waiting for the morning.

We had a lovely long weekend as Mr P had five days off from work.  Friday we took my parents to visit my Uncle in Rye Hospital - he isn't doing too well at the moment so we keep everything crossed that he will pick up soon and get back to his old self.  It was a dreadful day weather wise and the roads were a nightmare coming home with torrential rain and flooding on the marsh roads and yes there were those loony drivers that had to keep overtaking because they are in a hurry to get to the mortuary!!

Saturday saw the second crop for our new crafting group - we have gone from being the craft group with no name to the Seaside Crafters - the hall we meet in is off of Seaside and most of us at the group are Eastbournians so live by the sea.

I rustled up a coffee and walnut cake for us -

I had a break from scrapbooking and got stuck into Christmas cards as I am replenishing my stocks ready for my next fundraiser which is only two weeks away.  I got fourteen cards made and die cut a load of images ready for more cards -

 Sunday we had a nice quiet day at home, we were both starting to develop our colds.  I got the sewing machine out and made a pile of Christmas themed tissue covers - for my fundraiser and for our WI when we have a stall at our village Christmas Fayre

And Monday found us spending the day in town finishing our Christmas shopping.  I still need to get a few online bits and pieces but otherwise it is all done, I try to get done before the end of November as trying to negotiate the crammed stores in December in a wheelchair is just no fun.  I treated myself to a lovely new snuggly dressing gown - it is damson faux fur and is the softest cuddliest dressing gown I have ever had and it has a hood for extra snuggliness -

I will quite happily spend the rest of the winter living in my new dressing gown LOL!!

Please go and give a wave to Sian over at From High in the Sky who is in charge of Memorandum Monday.  Have a great week and fingers crossed by next Monday I will be a little less snotty!!

Blogtober Day 30 - Asilah

This was one of Anita's classes from last year.  The paper range is Bo Bunny Rose Cafe

 As soon as I saw the small tiles that Anita had cut from the paper I knew that it was going to be the perfect layout for some of my photographs from Christmas Eve 2012 when we visited Asilah in Morocco.  

The circles were made with Liquid Pearls in Rose Gold.

Thank you Anita for another great class

Blogtober 2015 Day 18 - This Train is My Life

Anita's class back in June was using a set of papers from Studio 75 called Mr & Mrs Black, there were enough papers in the pack to make two lovely layouts.  They were perfect for masculine layouts and I used photographs from our visit to the rail museum at Swindon last year.

We covered card with metallic tape, die cut it and then painted it with black acrylic paint.  Once the paint had dried we then rubbed some of it back off with a scourer to give it a distressed look.

And the second layout was from the same trip -

I made Mr P sit in the little coffin that was the signallers' air raid shelter

Thank you Anita for a lovely class xx

Blogtober 2015 Day 2 - Herm

Day 2 of Blogtober and I am sharing a layout made at my August scrap class.  This time Anita had a lovely layout for us just using Bazill cardstock - not a scrap of patterned paper in sight.

I used some photographs from our 2013 trip to Guernsey and a lovely day trip over to the beautiful island of Herm.  The swirls were die cut and the sunflowers were made using Woodware daisy punches and punched circle centres which I coated with glossy accents.

The sides of the cardstock were punched with a Martha Stewart deep edge lattice punch.

Thank you Anita for another lovely class.

Hippo Burpday to Meeeeeeeeee

Well after the fun of having my birthday on a cruise ship last year, this year's will be very tame in comparison.  I did this layout last October at my monthly scrap class run by the lovely Anita but somehow missed blogging it.  Well today is a very appropriate day to blog it!!

We used Crate Paper from the Maggie Holmes 'Flea Market' range.

 We made a little shaker box using one of the cut apart sheets and filled it with sequins -

And the pink 50 thickers on my fingers in the photograph were safely carried home and used on the layout -

I also used Thickers for the main title -

And a little video from that night in the restaurant - LOL I had had so much champers that I couldn't blow out my candles in one go!!

Thank you Anita for such a fab class, it was my favourite class from last year - just sorry that it has taken me so long to get it blogged!

Christmas Selfies

Anita always has a lovely Christmas page for us to do at the January class.

We used Simple Stories 'Cozy Christmas' and MME Lost and Found Christmas.

The photograph was from our messing around on Boxing Day trying to take selfies.

Together is the Best Place to be

And another oldie, this time from last year

A class by Anita, using Simple Stories 'Homespun'.

We May Not Have It All Together

Catching up with sharing layouts that I did a while ago, this one was from a scrap class with the lovely Anita M earlier this year.

The papers used are Websters Pages 'Family Traditions' and the background was created by stamping with bubble wrap and acrylic paint.

Everything Beautiful Has It's Moment

This was the beautiful class page that we did with Anita this month using Kaisercraft Blue Bay collection papers.

I used a lovely photograph of my parents taken at a recent family wedding.  The flowers were die cut using the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Sizzlet die.  The sayings are printed onto acetate so that they could be placed over the patterned papers.

Thank you Anita for another lovely class - this is definitely in my top 5 of all time favourite class pages xx

Blogtoberfest 2014 Day 26 - Love you to the moon and back

This is the second page that we did at Anita's September class using Authentique 'Strong' papers

I used a couple of photographs of Mr P from our 2011 Icelandic cruise.  I love the folded paper piece across the bottom but have already forgotten how we did it - ooops!!

Blogtoberfest 2014 Day 19 - I Love My Daddy

Our September class with the lovely Anita we used some lovely male themed papers from Authentique 'Strong' range and made two layouts.

This is the first one using phototgraphs of myself and my niece Chloe with my lovely Dad at one of my nephews' 18th birthday meal -

I will share the second layout very soon.

Anitas August class - Formal Night

This was the lovely class that we did with Anita in August - there was lots of lovely fussy cutting to do.

We used papers from My Mind's Eye 'Lucky in Love' and cut our title using Sizzlet alphabet Roundabout from felt.

The photograph is from the cruise that my niece did in 2011 with my parents for her 21st birthday.

I raised up the hand cut flowers with pinflair gel and then added a bit of bling to the centres.

Thank you Anita for another lovely monthly class x

Trams

Our July class with Anita was a lovely double page layout using papers from My Mind's Eye 'Kate & Co'

I used photographs from a lovely weekend we spent with our Dutch friends, where we had a fab day at the open air museum in Arnhem.  You could walk round the site but if you wanted to rest your legs you could take a tram.

The left hand side -

  

And the right hand side -

I cut the title using Sizzlet alphabet die 'Naturally Serif'

Thank you Anita for another lovely class x

Love Completely and Enjoy the Journey

This is the class that we did in June with Anita using papers from Kaisercraft 'Violet Crush'.  I made another layout for our wedding album.

There was lots of handcutting going on and layering of the flowers, once I got home I added a liberal dose of Stickles to the flowers as well to make the layout very sparkly.

Thank you Anita for another gorgeous class xx

Meadow Barn Inmates

This is the layout that we did for Anita's May class, using My Mind's Eye 'My Girl'

I love how all the layering onto black cardstock makes the papers really pop.  Thank you Lee for coming up with the title for me!!

When Rodgie and Vern met the FBGs

Anita's April class was easily converted with the addition of some plain cardstock into a double page layout.  It was perfect for me to use with all the photographs taken of the FBGs (Fat Bottomed Girls and Guy) with Rodgie and Vern (Jessie's monkey and turtle) at our annual craft weekend in deepest, darkest Hereford.

The papers used are Scenic Route 'Charlotte' and the title was cut using Sizzix alphabet Round-a-bout and funky foam.

Here is a close up of the two sides -

Alison who couldn't join us this time round as she had returned to Australia didn't miss out on a photo op as her photo was taken on the Saturday morning when she joined us for a Skype chat.

I decorated the layout with EK Success punched butterflies, die cut butterflies (Cheery Lynn) and EK Success punched flowers.

So Happy Together

I very quickly wanted to use the photograph of me and Mr P taken at the charity ball in February, so it was just perfect for Anita's March class using Fancy Pants 'Park Bench'. 

The title was cut using a Sizzlet alphabet 'Round-a-bout' and funky foam.

Thank you Anita for another lovely class xx

Friends

This is the layout that we did for Anita's February class, using MME Lost and Found papers.

Thank you Anita for a lovely class

Bah Humbug

The lovely Anita always teaches a Christmas layout in January and our layout was a variation of this page.

This is my take on it using three photographs -

The papers are by American Craft but I am not sure what range.  The title is cut using an X cut alphabet die - does anyone have any experience of using these in a Bigshot?  It took the addition of a lot of shims to get it to cut properly.

The photographs are from Christmas 2011, I bought Mr P a bah humbug santa hat as a joke as he always pretends that he hates Christmas.

Thank you Anita for another lovely class xx

Live well, Laugh often, Love much

Another class taught by the lovely Anita M last year.

I'm afraid I have no idea what the papers are as I failed to keep the strips, they might be WRMK????

Thank you Anita for another lovely class xxx